Tag: chickens

elodieunderglass:

tinysaurus-rex:

tinysaurus-rex:

tinysaurus-rex:

miss-0wl:

“Do whatever you intended to do as if he wasn’t there.” All I can imagine is a guy carrying around a sassy rooster in a grocery store.

I’ve carried a sassy rooster with me while I fed the ducks, horses, other chickens, I’be carried a sassy boy to the moon and back.

Today’s offending MAN was Sweeney

he was being a total SASS BOY

and for some reason the other chickens never really try to put him in his place, probably because he’s so ridiculous

so it’s all up to us

and for the record for all the people who say you should just eat aggressive roosters, this method is proven and very effective. Just pick them up when they’re being naughty and carry them until they relax, only set them down if they’re calm. Works with any size boy, any age (not any breed, but most). In just a few days of repeated sessions they’ll be total gents. Don’t eat these innocent lads, they’re just following their instinct, we’ve bred them to be overly aggressive but it doesn’t have to be that way.

hey what do you think the original wikihow article was about? I like to pretend it was about something completely unexpected, like how to tame a wild horse or talk to girls. This is Step 4. There are many other steps.

vassraptor:

gallusrostromegalus:

nemorps:

chickenkeeping:

yemenitehole:

lord-kitschener:

chickenkeeping:

chickenkeeping:

whats the best way to trim the crest+beard of a silkie? this lady can barely see with all that floof! 

apparently some people use little headbands to keep the fluff out of their eyes

80s chickens

yo im late but when i first got my polish frizzle bantams years ago from their breeder their crests were up to keep them out of the mud (because they’re show birds) and the result was amazing

chef hats/make-up brush hair

i love them thank you for the advice

@gallusrostromegalus

Someday someone will figure out how to give chickens Towel-Turbans and THAT will be a great day.

when one of your relatives insists you all wear the hats from your christmas crackers

ainawgsd:

Mille Fleur

Mille Fleur is a specific color pattern of mottling. The literal translation of Mille Fleur is “thousand flowers.“ Mille fleur has a base color or red/buff, with each feather containing a black crescent pattern with a silver [white] tip. Adding blue will dilute the black to grey. Addition of the lavender gene dilutes the black to grey and the red/buff to lemon/citron resulting an a color known as porcelain.

elodieunderglass:

logicalparafox:

myriamsaviniart:

medlie:

noivern:

carbisari:

blanketflowerbees:

tbh???? chickens are the best pets??

they

  • wag their tails (yes!!! like dogs!!!! they do it when they are exited or happy)
  • love eating treats and love whenever you pretend to peck things
  • get very attached to certain ppl, will think ur their mom
  • run around like dinosaurs??????? i don’t know if this is just my chickens but they are very dramatic when they run??
  • make VERY weird noises,,, like honking, purring, clucking, and peeping (soft peeping, they still think they are baby chicks)
  • will give you lots of pretty feathers 
  • eat bugs
  • you can pet them, v soft
  • like a tiny pet dinosaur

@noivern

additions:

  • if u raise them from small (or sometimes just anyway) you are Forever Mum and they will jump up on ur back and go to sleep
  • and preen you, rearrange your clothes and hair sometimes
  • dont like dealing with spiders in house? go outside. pick up chicken. hold chicken in vicinity of spider. spider vacuumed up in about 0.3 seconds.
  • make amusing Warning Noise when a Bad Bird goes overhead. sometimes this is something sensible like a raptor. sometimes it is a startling blackbird, or maybe nothing (maybe chickens can see extradimensional birds? unsure)
  • when chicken mama has babby chicken and they get in her feathers and poke their heads out
  • rooster is Very Protective but also thinks that maybe anything that peeps is Potential Flock Babies. has been known to bring food for goslings and ducklings
  • actually roosters in general are very cute. find food and go beep beep beep so ladies can find it. if you give him a nice treat he wont eat it and will go find a lady to give it to.

@phantomtype

Also:

  • You can teach them basic tricks (like, hop when you clap your hands)
  •  They know math. If you place several plates in line, and then put food only in, for example, every three plates, they will jump from one plate with food to the other, without checking the others. They just know
  • Even if you let them live outside, free to roam whenever they like, if you approach them they stop going around and wait for you to pet them (or at least, my chicken Bettina did that)
  • as chicks, they would sleep in the crook of your neck and make the very same peep sound they do when under their moms
  • those little feathered butts
  • yes their feathers are v soft
  • cover their heads and they fall asleep (this never ceases to be funny to me)
  • the best eggs you’ll ever eat are those made with love. Love your chicken.
  • I once owned a chicken that went blind while sitting. Only one chick of hers hatched, and other chicken bullied her a bit. Her only chick turned out to be a male, and it would defend its mother fiercely, and fight with others to give her the best food, even if the other chickens were adults and it was just a lil chick. It wasn’t even scared of us, and would attack us if we went too close to its mummy. What a fighter

@elodieunderglass

Thank you so much for thinking of me. Indian Jungle Fowl are the best Fowl!!

In spring, we are getting chickens (timing is bad right now, and TBH I’m not really over losing the ducks) and I’m having a great time trying to decide what chickens to get. I was thinking of rescuing battery hens but I suspect it would be better for our situation to get bantams – that is, particularly small chickens. I carefully read all the chicken anecdotes I can, and look at chicken pictures.

I think about this a lot. I have many magazines